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Phase transitions with spontaneous symmetry breaking are expected for group field theories as a basic feature of the geometogenesis scenario. The following paper aims to investigate the equilibrium phase for group field theory by using the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Vincent Lahoche , Dine Ousmane Samary

We study the quantum dynamics of Josephson junction arrays. We find isolated groups of low-entanglement eigenstates, that persist even when the Josephson interaction is strong enough to destroy the organization of the spectrum in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-22 Angelo Russomanno , Michele Fava , Rosario Fazio

We investigate the dynamics of a run-and-tumble particle in a double-well potential and demonstrate that, in stark contrast to Brownian particles, active dynamics can lead to strong ergodicity breaking. When the barrier height exceeds a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso

We investigate a solvable model for energy conserving non-equilibrium steady states. The time-reversal asymmetry of the dynamics leads to the violation of detailed balance and to ergodicity breaking, as manifested by the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Yair Shokef , Gal Shulkind , Dov Levine

Ergodicity is a fundamental requirement for a dynamical system to reach a state of statistical equilibrium. On the other hand, it is known that in slow-fast systems ergodicity of the fast sub- system impedes the equilibration of the whole…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Kushal Shah , Dmitry Turaev , Vassili Gelfreich , Vered Rom-Kedar

The dynamics of the Hamiltonian mean field model is studied in the context of continuous time random walks. We show that the sojourn times in cells in the momentum space are well described by a L\'evy truncated distribution. Consequently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-06 A. Figueiredo , Z. T. Oliveira , T. M. Rocha Filho , R. Matsushita , M. A. Amato

The present paper is devoted to the study of resonances for one-dimensional quantum systems with a potential that is the restriction to some large box of an ergodic potential. For discrete models both on a half-line and on the whole line,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Frédéric Klopp

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

Long-range interacting Hamiltonian systems are believed to relax generically towards non-equilibrium states called "quasi-stationary" because they evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium very slowly, on a time-scale diverging with particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-18 Michael Joyce , Jules Morand , Pascal Viot

We find a general formula for the distribution of time averaged observables for weakly non-ergodic systems. Such type of ergodicity breaking is known to describe certain systems which exhibit anomalous fluctuations, e.g. blinking quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adi Rebenshtok , Eli Barkai

When a generic quantum system is prepared in a simple initial condition, it typically equilibrates toward a state that can be described by a thermal ensemble. A known exception are localized systems which are non-ergodic and do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Henrik Wilming , Tobias J. Osborne , Kevin S. C. Decker , Christoph Karrasch

At low temperatures the configurational phase space of a macroscopic complex system (e.g., a spin-glass) of $N\sim 10^{23}$ interacting particles may split into an exponential number $\Omega_s \sim \exp({\rm const} \times N)$ of ergodic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 Haijun Zhou , Kang Li

We discuss the dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with weak long-range interactions. Generically, these systems experience a violent collisionless relaxation in the Vlasov regime leading to a (usually) non-Boltzmannian quasi stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In a many-body localized (MBL) quantum system, the ergodic hypothesis breaks down completely, giving rise to a fundamentally new many-body phase. Whether and under which conditions MBL can occur in higher dimensions remains an outstanding…

Using a model Hamiltonian for a single-mode electromagnetic field interacting with a nonlinear medium, we show that quantum expectation values of subsystem observables can exhibit remarkably diverse ergodic properties even when the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-21 C. Sudheesh , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan

Ergodicity breaking is observed in the blockade regime of Rydberg atoms arrays, in the form of low entanglement eigenstates known as scars, which fail to thermalize. The signature of these states persists in periodically driven systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Kevissen Sellapillay , Alberto Verga , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

It is a common assumption that quantum systems with time reversal invariance and classically chaotic dynamics have energy spectra distributed according to GOE-type of statistics. Here we present a class of systems which fail to follow this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Gutkin

Dynamical systems can display a plethora of ergodic and ergodicity breaking behaviors, ranging from simple periodicity to ergodicity and chaos. Here we report an unusual type of non-ergodic behavior in a many-body discrete-time dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yusuf Kasim , Tomaž Prosen

In ergodic physical systems, time-averaged quantities converge (for large times) to their ensemble-averaged values. Large deviation theory describes rare events where these time averages differ significantly from the corresponding ensemble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-20 Robert L. Jack

This paper is a physicist's review of the major conceptual issues concerning the problem of spectral universality in quantum systems. Here we present a unified, graph-based view of all archetypical models of such universality (billiards,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Wen Wei Ho , Djordje Radicevic